Dame Edith Sitwell
Ian McMillan introduces poet Dame Edith Sitwell reading in an archive recording from 1947. She reads from poetry series entitled Facade as well as the poem Still Falls the Rain.
Ian McMillan begins a fifty-part series celebrating 70 years of Radio 3's recording of poets and poetry since it was launched as the Third Programme in September 1946. We start with the flamboyant Dame Edith Sitwell from a programme broadcast in 1947. She reads a section from Fa莽ade, a series of poems Sitwell wrote to be recited over an instrumental accompaniment by composer William Walton. Then a complete change of tone with her poem Still Falls the Rain written in 1941.
Three Score and Ten features archive recordings from the last seven decades of the Third Programme and Radio 3, with 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems. Amongst them T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy. Plus ten brand new poems by contemporary poets commissioned specially for the series and broadcast on The Verb.
Producer: Sharon Sephton; Research by Caitlin Crawford.
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- Thu 29 Sep 2016 21:55成人快手 Radio 3
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Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected—Three Score and Ten
Ian McMillan builds a historic collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.
Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected
Ian McMillan builds a historic collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.